Northowram Kids Club Ltd

Inspection of Northowram Kids Club Ltd Northowram Community Centre, Halifax HX3 7HH

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This provision meets requirements

Children enjoy coming to the club and spending time with their friends. They happily engage in a wide range of activities that test out their physical skills, including table football, badminton and pool. Children cooperate well during team games and group activities, such as football, and staff ensure they understand the rules involved. Staff plan activities where children get to create and design from their imaginations. They make turtles and robots from junk modelling and staff ensure they have all the materials they need to do so.

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This provision meets requirements

Staff play enthusiastically alongside the children and deploy themselves well to ensure children are safely supervised. Staff praise children's efforts and ask them questions about their creations. Children have good relationships with the staff who care for them.

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This provision meets requirements

Staff act as good role models for the children and manage children's behaviour in a calm and positive way. Staff help children to understand the importance of making good choices and to be kind to their friends. Staff ensure children understand safe walking practices on the walks to and from school, which helps to improve their awareness of road safety.

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n Staff ensure all children are able to participate and be involved in the provision and the activities on offer. Staff take time to listen to the children and actively seek their views, ideas and suggestions. This helps to shape the provision and enables staff to provide meaningful experiences for children. n Staff support children of all ages to play well together and ensure they understand what is expected of them. Children show patience and kindness as they help to explain the rules of board games to the younger children and help them to count the number of spaces to move on the board. n Staff plan activities that encourage children to play cooperatively together. Children enjoy construction and talk to staff about their intentions for a train track, they tell staff that they are making a circular track with a bridge. They make a slide for the dinosaur figures and predict which size of dinosaur will go

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down the fastest. They question if the cars will go down faster than the dinosaurs because they have wheels but tell staff the dinosaurs will go down faster because they are 'heavier'. Staff listen attentively to their predictions before encouraging them to test out their theory to see if it is correct. n Children enjoy a range of healthy fruit and vegetables and chose from milk or water to drink. Staff have been on oral health training and talk to children about the importance of living a healthy lifestyle. Children brush their teeth at the

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13 June 2024 before-school club in the morning and understand the importance of oral health for their well-being. n Children understand about road safety and explain to the inspector how staff keep them safe with a staff member at the front, middle and behind the group of children. n Children tell the inspector about how they enjoy spending their time while at the setting and recall their experiences of their favourite activities. They get excited as they show the inspector the different sea creatures they have made and explain what materials they have used and how these were decided upon. They explore shape and size, explaining to the inspector why they chose certain sized boxes for the body and more rounded ones for the head. They demonstrate their ability to effectively problem solve as they explain how they added larger, flatter feet so they can make their robots stand up and not fall over. n Safe recruitment procedures are followed when employing new staff and ensure

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all the relevant checks are completed. All required documentation is in place and contains the necessary detail. n Staff ask parents for a range of information when children first start in their care to ensure children settle in well. Parents report that they feel well informed about how their children spend their time and that their children enjoy coming. n The relationship staff have with school is effective and parents report that channels of communication are good, with key information effectively passed on to them within a timely manner. This supports continuity in the children's care and development.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

There is an open and positive culture around safeguarding that puts children's interests first.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY539212 Local authority Calderdale Inspection number 10341095 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises

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Registers

Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Day care type Out-of-school day care

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inspection

Total number of places 60 Number of children on roll 160 Name of registered person Northowram Kids Club Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 07481548491 Date of previous inspection 2 May 2019

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Information about this early years setting

Northowram Kids Club Ltd re-registered in 2016 due to its change from individual ownership to a limited company. The out-of-school club employs eight members of staff. Of these, five hold appropriate qualifications at level 3. The club operates before and after school during term time from 7am to 9am and from 3pm to 6pm. During school holidays, the club opens from 7.30am to 6pm.

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Inspection activities

n This was the first routine inspection the provider received since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The inspector discussed the impact of the pandemic with the provider and has taken that into account in their evaluation of the provider. n The inspector viewed the provision and discussed the safety and suitability of the premises. n The inspector observed activities and talked to the staff and children throughout the inspection. n The inspector discussed safeguarding arrangements with the staff, owner manager and checked evidence of staff's suitability to work with children. n The inspector discussed and reviewed a sample of relevant documents, certificates, policies and procedures. n The inspector spoke to children, to find out about their time at the setting. n The inspector talked to staff at appropriate times during the inspection and took account of their views. n The inspector discussed with the owner manager how practice is evaluated to

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bring about improvements. n The inspector considered the views of parents spoken to on the day of the inspection.

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We carried out this inspection under sections 49 and 50 of the Childcare Act 2006 on the quality and standards of provision that is registered on the Early Years Register. The registered person must ensure that this provision complies with the statutory framework for children's learning, development and care, known as the early years foundation stage.

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